Clinton D. Harding - Fantasy Author

Author of young adult fantasy and science fiction

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Musing | Origin Stories

June 21, 2017 By Clinton Leave a Comment

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Origin stories are a staple of the fantasy and science fiction genres, comic books especially. Wide-eyed farm boy gets whisked away on an adventure, comes into his powers, saves the world/galaxy. Baby is sent off into space/down river from a dying world/planet, grows up, inherits powers, learns how to be a hero. Young man goes […]

Filed Under: Musings Tagged With: Coming of age, It, Musing, Origin, Star Wars, Superheroes, Young adult

Conduits | The Hunt for Junk Begins HERE…

January 6, 2015 By Clinton Leave a Comment

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A year or more ago I wrote a story I referred to as a “junkpunk” novel. It was a story about a girl who can bring rusted, broken down machines to life using magic fireflies. This girl, Clara Danvers, is a conduit. She lives in a world where generations past the world went dark. Electricity blinked out […]

Filed Under: Conduits Tagged With: Conduits, Fantasy, Hunger Games, Junkpunk, Mad Max, Wattpad, Young adult

Musings | You are what you eat… er… read?

July 15, 2014 By Clinton Leave a Comment

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[Tries crawling out of a infinite, information murky black hole.] [The links have me by the ankle, pulling me deeper.] [Click us. Click. US. Say the links.] [One heavy booted kick to the Interest’s face…] [The internet spits me back out, offended by my bitter taste.] So… while fending off the tempting allure of links and […]

Filed Under: Musings Tagged With: Brandon Sanderson, Firefight, Half a King, Joe Abercrombie, Reading, Reckoners, YA, Young adult

Blog Tour | Bad Monsters Blog Tour – Day Seven

April 4, 2014 By Clinton Leave a Comment

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The “Bad Monsters” blog tour is in its seventh day. The bloggers who’ve participated in the tour have been wonderful! Today, Curling Up By The Fire has a guest post. Sometimes young characters make the best heroes. Earlier in the tour there was a post about 80’s movies and their influence on the Our Monsters […]

Filed Under: Blog Tour Tagged With: Adventure, Bad Monsters, Blog Tour, Fantasy, Our Monsters Chronicles, Young adult, Young heroes

Blog Tour | Bad Monsters Blog Tour – Day Six

April 1, 2014 By Clinton Leave a Comment

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The “Bad Monsters” blog tour rolls on! Today Sister Sinister Speaks has a guest post about YA love-triangles. Most YA novels have a love-triangle of sorts. The heroine typically has two guys who are devoted to her, hate each other, and come from two different walks of life. Who does she choose? Not often do […]

Filed Under: Blog Tour Tagged With: Adventure, Bad Monsters, Blog Tour, Fantasy, Love triangles, Our Monsters Chronicles, Young adult

Blog Tour | Bad Monsters Blog Tour – Day Five

March 29, 2014 By Clinton Leave a Comment

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Another day on the “Bad Monsters” blog tour is rolling in. Today, Aside from Writing has a three chapter excerpt from the novel. One character is interrogated for information while the rest of the group travel on a bus toward more trouble. Click here to read the first three chapters of “Bad Monsters”.

Filed Under: Blog Tour Tagged With: Adventure, Bad Monsters, Blog Tour, Excerpt, Fantasy, Our Monsters Chronicles, Young adult

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Free Short Stories from Clint

Merit Badges – a short story from the Our Monsters series

Three high school teens in the woods on a Friday night… some beers… skaters with a grudge… what could go wrong? Add in a couple of genetically created … Read More...

That Little Girl

A dark short story about one man’s oversight concerning his death.  Since dying was just not part of his daily routine, the man just went on with his … Read More...

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Clinton's Bookshelf: Currently-Reading

Kinslayer
Kinslayer
by Jay Kristoff
Knife of Dreams
Knife of Dreams
by Robert Jordan

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What have I recently read?

Clinton's Bookshelf: Recently Read

Steelheart
5 of 5 stars
Steelheart
by Brandon Sanderson
The King's Blood
5 of 5 stars
The King's Blood
by Daniel Abraham
The Last Stormdancer
5 of 5 stars
The Last Stormdancer
by Jay Kristoff
All Our Yesterdays
5 of 5 stars
All Our Yesterdays
by Cristin Terrill
The Fall of Five
4 of 5 stars
The Fall of Five
by Pittacus Lore

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